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Roosevelt Towers may be Cambridge's worst public housing development. Last month the city's Health Commissioner, James Hartgering, threatened to condemn the project's 96-unit tower building. He called the tower "unfit for human habitation...

Author: By Lewis Clayton, | Title: Roosevelt Towers Burns While Bureaucrats Fiddle | 9/17/1973 | See Source »

James Hartgering, Cambridge Health Commissioner, said last month that he would condemn the building, which he called "unfit for human habitation." The Cambridge St. development has been the scene of fighting between gangs of youths on three nights over the past three weeks...

Author: By Lewis Clayton, | Title: Roosevelt Towers' Tenants May Leave During Renovation | 9/17/1973 | See Source »

...resignation of attorney general Richard G. Kleindienst '47 demonstrates an important distinction that must be emphasized in the Watergate case or any other public scandal. Behavior need not be criminal to be disreputable, and men may be unfit for public trust before being convicted on crime like perjury or obstruction of justice. If President Nixon recognized the necessity of accepting Kleindienst's resignation--submitted because of the attorney general's "close association" with those involved in the scandal, he must also recognize the unsavory light this logic casts on his entire Administration...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Watergate | 5/1/1973 | See Source »

...country at large, the board of overseers, contrary to popular belief, has decided not to confer the degree of LL.D. on the present governor. The question seems to be simply, whether the university should follow a somewhat questionable precedent and confer a degree upon one who was deemed unfit for it, or breaking away from this precedent, not to give it this year, and in the future only to those who were deemed especially worthy to receive the degree. It is, of course, unpleasant to mark out in this way some particular man by not conferring...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Overseers and the Governor | 1/24/1973 | See Source »

...German pilots through voluntary checkups stricter than those the FAA requires. Over a period of eight years, Dr. Sauer's examinations revealed that at least 50 pilots, nearly all of them Americans who fly charter planes, had diseases that could have made them unfit to fly. Some had serious cardiovascular disorders which might not have shown up in FAA exams. Other problems discovered included diabetes, liver ailments, syphilis, tuberculosis, paratyphoid fever and kidney disease. Several had two or more maladies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Flyers' Ailments | 11/20/1972 | See Source »

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